Prem Narayan Bhattarai

HIV and Aids is the most dangerous disease all over the world in these days. And yes Nepal is also highly affected country of the south Asia. Recently news of a Dhaulagiri Zone, one of the west part of Nepal; is published in Kantipur National Daily. Two hundred eighty (280) HIV positives are there in this area. And only seventy of them have exposed as affected person. Other affected 20 are already died (Tuesday, 23rd September, 2008). This is just an example of one Zone, Nepal's other areas are also highly affected by this disease. This is increasing day by day due to the lack of enough awareness programs. Nepali HIV positive doesn't expose them due to the various reasons. They afraid of the community and relatives, if they come to know then will be excommunicated from the community and will be tragically misbehaved. Global Fund has closed it's funding to Nepal which used to give for the HIV awareness program. They claim that the fund was not used properly, so the...

Tobacco is 'a substance which is smoked in cigarettes, pipes, etc., which is prepare d from the dried leaves of a particular plant'. But in Nepal, tobacco is not just used f or t he cigarettes rather it is used to just keep in mouth just behind the lips (up and down). 27% teenagers take tobacco (either as smoking or keeping behind the lips). Out of 27% teenagers; 3% are girls and 24% are boys. (For further information go to next article- Smoking and Youth of Nepal) by: Prem N. Bhattarai

Love: " To have strong feelings of affection for another adult and be romantically and sexually attracted to them or to feel great affection for a friend or person in your family " is Love. (Camb ridge Advance Learner's Dictionary) Selfishness: "Thinking of only one self is Selfishness" . To be self ish is to always be putting your-self first in front of everything else. But to love is the op posite of that - to live for others all the way! Is this something th at comes naturally to us or is this something th at we need help on? What does the Bible teach? The Bible demands of the love to oth ers by us as we love ourselves (Luke 9:10:27). Bible also te aches to not greed of other s ( Ex.21:17). Does the Bible con cern s more on love? Yes! It is very clearly state d. Its patient, it’s kind, it does not seek its own - in other words, true love is totally selfless . by Mr. Prem N. Bhattarai

Introduction: I have been to west part of Nepal few months before and I saw a tragic picture. I was just returning from Church on Saturday and entered to a restaurant to have a cup of tea with a plate of snacks. When I entered the restaurant, a group of school students (kids) were enjoying cigarettes. It was very difficult for me go ahead because of the smoke. And that challenged me to think for a while and I decided to write some thing on it… Six years before, when I was a school student almost 15% of my class mates used to smoke in toilet during the break time. And, according to a report nearly a quarter of high school students in the U.S. smoke cigarettes.I don't think its much different in Nepali context. Smoking and the Problem: Taking some tobacco in a small pipe is known as 'Smoking', in Nepali context. Most of the young (Teens and School Students), learns smoking from their parents in Nepal. Father of the home smokes as they come to home from out ...

In a Church, 60% of total congregations are youths. They are the future leaders and also the resource of the Church. We find many potentialities in youth for Church development in both spiritual and material realms. However, the youth need special treatment to develop and make them meaningful and purposeful. We can see uniqueness of youth in both biblical and sociological perspective. BIBLICAL PERSPECTIVE They are worth in Church services, 1 Sam 2:18-19, 26; 3-1 God is calling them when they are young, Jer 1: 6-10 They have good impact in ministry 1 Sam 17:41-51; 1 Tim 4:12-16 SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE They change physically into maturity and begin to seek identity. They also begin to develop relationship with opposite sex and peer group. They also change in seeking moral value and begin to think about their spiritual lives which make them to search for God. Finally, they determine their destiny by choosing mates, missions and Master.The church has a r...